Blog by Tag: Art and Design

This week the children have enjoyed messy play and explored different materials including shaving foam, oats, paint and clay. They have used their investigative skills to feel, pour and fill containers using oats. They have created shapes and patterns with paint and shaving foam and made…

This week and last, we have been experimenting with different effects that can be made using wax crayons and felt-tip pens.  The children have made individual pictures and investigated rubbings of natural materials in small groups.  They have also worked on larger scale pieces.…

We created our own printing tools using clay, pine cones, shells. It was very messy but fantastic fun.

We visited to church to see the crib and the three wise men visiting baby Jesus.  We talked about how the 3 kings are also called ‘The Magi’ and we spoke about the importance of the star that they followed to find baby Jesus.  One of our little boys suggested we sing the ‘Little Baby Jesus’ song…

Year 5 have been exploring printmaking.

After looking at the work of Andy Warhol, the children designed their own stencil based around a Christmas theme.

We are going to use our stencils to create wonderful Christmas cards.

Physical Development, Expressive Art & Design

The children are using their fine motor skills to decorate wreaths, Christmas trees and snowmen this week. They are also wrapping gifts for under the tree and making magical reindeer food bags. 

Year 1- Art-Painting

This week Year 1 have been looking at the artist Piet Mondrian a Dutch painter. They created their own pieces of artwork using primary colours. 

Our nursery is full of invitations to play, learn, investigate and explore but first thing in the morning we vary what we have out on our carpet area. Recently, the children have loved mark making and exploring shape on large sheets of paper.

 We used printing techniques to create superb art work. 

The week we have been reading the Christmas Pine. The book tells the story of a Norwegian pine tree chosen to be the annual Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. The story’s meaning symbolises peace and friendship as the tree is a gift from Norway to the UK. This week the children designed their own…

Our home school diary task this week was to talk about bonfire night and what we did to celebrate.  We then thought about the fireworks we saw in the sky and created our own firework pictures. First we selected different colours and mixed them together, we then used a sponge to print the paint on…

Expressive Arts & Design

The children enjoyed exploring paint and colour mixing with their feet this week. First they walked in paint with their feet covered in bubble wrap and created ‘dinosaur footprints’. Then they went barefoot describing and comparing how it felt using words such as…